Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Language

eng

Format of Original

9 p.

Publication Date

2003

Publisher

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers

Source Publication

SPIE Proceedings: Medical Imaging: Physics of Medical Imaging

Source ISSN

2329-4302

Original Item ID

doi: 10.1117/12.480386

Abstract

We have proposed a CT system design to rapidly produce volumetric images with negligible cone beam artifacts. The investigated system uses a large array scanned source with a smaller array of fast detectors. The x-ray source is electronically steered across a 2D target every few milliseconds as the system rotates. The proposed reconstruction algorithm for this system is a modified 3D filtered backprojection method. The data are rebinned into 2D parallel ray projections, most of which are tilted with respect to the axis of rotation. Each projection is filtered with a 2D kernel and backprojected onto the desired image matrix. To ensure adequate spatial resolution and low artifact level, we rebin the data onto an array that has sufficiently fine spatial and angular sampling. Due to finite sampling in the real system, some of the rebinned projections will be sparse, but we hypothesize that the large number of views will compensate for the data missing in a particular view. Preliminary results using simulated data with the expected discrete sampling of the source and detector arrays suggest that high resolution (

Comments

Published version. Published as part of the proceedings of the conference, Medical Imaging 2003: Physics of Medical Imaging, 2003: 103-111. DOI. © 2003 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.

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